WONCA News

February, 2019

The USA’s National Rural Health Association (NRHA) and University of New Mexico (UNM) Health Sciences Center have partnered to bring the 16th WONCA World Rural Health conference to the United States for the first time in eight years. Save the date for October 12-15, 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Call for posters and presentation proposals is open until March 29.

February, 2019

he ASPIRE Global Leader Program, an initiative led by the WONCA Young Doctors’ Movement (YDM), has been developed to augment the skills of medical students, residents, and junior GPs/FPs, and simultaneously increasing their involvement i

February, 2019

​WONCA International Classification Committee (WICC) chair, Prof Thomas Kühlein, writes the January 2019 report of WICC

February, 2019

WONCA Asia Pacific region (APR) conference in Kyoto will provide the chance to observe Japanese medical clinics. An impressive list of speakers are assembled for our keynote and plenary sessions. Registration deadline for regular registration is March 11, 2019 (Japan Time).

February, 2019

WONCA is pleased to work in partnership with the World Health Organisation to assist in implementing the WHO recommended guidelines on family violence. Drawing on a wealth of knowledge and experience, WONCA’s primary care experts from the Special Interest Group on Family Violence are available to provide a range of international consultancies.

February, 2019

Nick Schubert and Tarun Sen Gupta (Australia), write: Rural Generalist Medicine (RGM) has been a feature of medicine in countries with large rural and/or remote areas for some time [10, 11], despite variations in rural generalist titles, nature of training programs and models of care.

February, 2019

Attend an excellent line up of workshops and enhance your experience at WONCA EMR 2019. These workshops have been carefully chosen to cover topics such as Universal Health Care, Primary Health Care, Health Policies, Refugee Health Care, Mental Health, Smoking Cessation and other hot topics.

February, 2019

The sixth regional WONCA East Mediterranean region conference will be held from March 21- 23, 2019 in the Phoenicia Hotel, Beirut Lebanon. It will be hosted by the Lebanese Society of Family Medicine. The three day congress will highlight the latest updates relating to the practice of family medicine via a range of methods. See more about the program here.

January, 2019

WONCA主席李国楝医生和世界卫生组织总干事谭德塞博士(Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus) 代表两个组织签署了谅解备忘录，反映了家庭医学在实现全民醫療覆盖目标方面所发挥的关键作用。这份谅解备忘录筑起了一道我们期待已久的桥梁，让WONCA各成员及成员组织与世卫组织作更紧密的合作。

January, 2019

El Presidente de la WONCA, Dondal Li, y el Director General de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, el Doctor Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus han firmado un memorándum de entendimiento (Memorandum of Understanding, MOU) en nombre de ambas organizaciones, reflejando el rol crucial que juega la Medicina de Familia a la hora de conseguir el objetivo de la Cobertura Universal de Salud.